JOHNNY ROCKET  it would appear that TVshows no longer works. tvrss.net is down. There's a forum article with replacement options...

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3296525&forum_id=671198  
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BARDDZEN  I've uninstalled the application and went through the process to manually uninstall the background process and the torrents still show up and kick off my torrent client. How the F can I get rid of this application?

The author needs to provide a way in the application to install, uninstall this background script.

Until then, avoid at all costs.  
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JEFF H.  I'm really just giving up on this thing!

It was very cool when it used to work, but lately (in 10.4 as well as 10.5) it is forgetting subscribed shows left and right, in other words shows that I subscribed to are later not in my subscribed list and not downloading the few that ARE left in my list.

I give up!

Going with ted

and p.s. this was with that "new" version that was "recompiled for Leopard" as well  
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TURIM  this dude Martin, has tuned it for Leopard-users. get it on his site:

http://www.maartenschreuder.nl/  
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SPRINGHEELMAC  Ok, I've selected some shows and hit subscribe. Now what? I used "Transmission" for my torrents and I don't see anything happening. What else are you supposed to do?  
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JEFF H.  TVShows constantly forgets all the shows that I've subscribed to.  
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JEFF H.  This is a great thing...

Yes, the interface COULD use some work (not the most user-friendly), but it works!

Only real complaint that I have is that a few all of my subscriptions were lost, they just disappeared!

Anyone else have this?  
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NIRSUS  I have been using this app for a couple of years now and it works great for me. --AIKOUSHA-- I am subscribed to Dr. Who and I checked there are at least 3 listings of Penn & Teller BS!. Try typing 'Penn' in the search box. Also there is a setting to have it check for new torrents hourly, daily, etc. If you set it to daily it only checks once a day.

Basically this app goes out to the internet and checks a DB of TV shows and lets you subscribe to the ones you like. Then when someone drops a bittorent file of that show TVSHOWS downloads it and opens the file into your default bittorrent client. TVSHOWS combined with Miro is excellent since Miro is a bittorrent client and can play .avi files (which seems to be the most common format for video).

It could use some interface improvements, but once you select the shows you want to subscribe to you don't need to run the app again until you want to add or remove a subscription. Like I said it works great for me, but apparently mileage varies.  
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AIKOUSHA  First, I'm sorry to bash what could eventually be a very wonderful program, especially for people whose recorders have died, only own a computer for TV viewing, want foreign programming, or require a big monitor due to bad eyesight.

However it needs severe improvement.

1. It is constantly going to "ruby" to talk to places on the internet... over and over and over again, even when you kill the program (if you state once a day for checking, it really should check only once a day). Constantly giving access to something most users know nothing about is going to really bother those who get paranoid (and even those that don't).

2. Speaking of which... the uninstall for this is atrocious. It works, but would be extremely confusing, especially to people who haven't ever seen the terminal before... and by Apple's own marketing, that should be nearly all users. And it's a royal pain if you have to track down where you stuck the zip file... This should be executed from within the app itself.

3. Where is this thing getting it's list? 8 of my 10 favorite programs aren't even on it (and I manage to never miss a torrent by manually finding it. Adding several more sites or better sites to this would be quite necessary (selecting and deselecting these sources would be good too). Also, the info is so old it's laughable. Just for an example, try "Dr. Who." The list only gives "2005" and "Confidential" as options. You won't get seasons 2-4 with this! And where the heck is "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!?" ^_^

4. One favorite series' is on the list, but when "subscribed to" I get a permanent "wait clock." I let it run for 20 minutes.... nothing.

5. The interface is staggeringly unfriendly for set up. You should be able to select everything as a group (click on-click off, or checkbox), or select one at a time and move (with a button or drag) to a subscribe list. It shouldn't be, "attempt to subscribe to one, and then have the horrendously long list zip back to the top, losing your place." It's nice to have the subs at the top, but that's old school or Windows thinking, it's not Mac-like at all.

6. I don't know about anybody else, but for most Mac users that don't have a superfast dual-core, playing most matroska files is impossible (and some x264 encodes don't work under mac matroska players in any form), and there is no way to select for media type (like one of the other recent commenters wanting iPod specific material). Filters for .avi, .mkv, .ogg, mp4, .flv, .wmv, .rm, etc., are more important to many people than the quality selection. Which also begs for a MB-Size filter as well.

7. I, personally, like to retrieve stuff from Asia (the location, not the band) dramas, a few game shows, and some anime, however NONE of that stuff is anywhere in this mess (for some people the reason for bittorrent is to get stuff they CAN'T see on TV in the "home country." So hooking into things like J-Addicts, Animesuki, sars, TV-Nihon and a few others might really impress a lot of people, not to mention expanding their horizons. Same goes for material from Europe.

So seriously, better interface, efficient use of the "calling" routine, and a much better choice for sources, will kick this up to something nearly everyone may use with ease, and make it indispensable for others. And used properly with Azureus, would actually allow people to go on vacation while their computer downloads, seeds to ratio, and then quits torrents, in the proper spirit of P2P sharing. If all this was implemented, I would definitely be willing to pay at least $10 for it... it would save that much in time in the first two weeks.

Good luck and I hope to see improvements. It's a nice start, even though I found it less efficient to implement than to actually get the stuff manually.  
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SESQUIPEDALIAN  It isn't a bittorrent client. It automatically downloads the little torrent files that you would otherwise need to download manually from a webpage. You still need to use your favorite bittorrent client to download the actual videos. RTFM.  
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